Parseval's Theorem
Parseval's Theorem
Parseval's Theorem
f(t)g(t)
dt =
1
2
_
f()g()
d (1)
This has many names but is often called Plancherels formula.
The key step in the proof of this is the use of the integral representation of the -function
() =
1
2
_
e
i
d or () =
1
2
_
e
i
d . (2)
We frstly invoke the inverse Fourier transform
f(t) =
1
2
_
f()e
it
d (3)
and then use this to re-write the LHS of (1) as
_
f(t)g(t)
dt =
_
_
1
2
_
f()e
it
d
__
1
2
_
g(
e
i
t
d
_
dt . (4)
Re-arranging the order of integration we obtain
_
f(t)f(t)
dt =
_
1
2
_
2
_
f()g(
__
e
i(
)t
dt
_
. .
Use deltafn here
d
d . (5)
The version of the integral representation of the -function we use in (2) above is
(
) =
1
2
_
e
it(
)
dt . (6)
Using this in (5), we obtain
_
f(t)g(t)
dt =
1
2
_
f()
__
g(
) d
_
d
=
1
2
_
f()g()
d . (7)
(7) comes about because of the general -function property
_
F(
)(
) d
= F().
2 Parsevals theorem (also known as the energy theorem)
Taking g = f in (1) we immediately obtain
_
|f(t)|
2
dt =
1
2
_
|f()|
2
d . (8)
The LHS side is energy in temporal space while the RHS is energy in spectral space.
Example: Sheet 6 Q6 asks you to use Parsevals Theorem to prove that
_
dt
(1+t
2
)
2
= /2.
The integral can be evaluated by the Residue Theorem but to use Parsevals Theorem you will
need to evaluate f() =
_
e
it
dt
1+t
2
. To fnd this, construct the complex integral
_
C
e
iz
dz
1+z
2
and
take the semi-circle C in the upper (lower) half-plane when < 0 (> 0). The answers are e
when > 0. Then evaluate the RHS of (8) in its two parts.
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3 The Convolution theorem and the auto-correlation function
The statement of the Convolution theorem is this: for two functions f(t) and g(t) with Fourier
transforms F[f(t)] = f() and F[g(t)] = g(), with convolution integral defned by
1
f g =
_
e
it
__
f(u)g(t u) du
_
dt . (12)
Now defne = t u and divide the order of integration to fnd
F (f g) =
_
e
iu
f(u) du
_
e
i
g() d = f() g() . (13)
This step is allowable because the region of integration in the u plane is infnite. As we shall
later, with Laplace transforms this is not the case and requires more care.
The normalised auto-correlation function is related to this and is given by
(t) =
_
f(u)f
(t u) du
_
|f(u)|
2
du
. (14)
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It makes no diference which way round the f and the g inside the integral are placed: thus we could write
f g =
_